2016 December 26 - Kranji

With Doreen, Nessie, Ian and Freda.
  1. Lesser Whistling Duck##
  2. Yellow Bittern
  3. Striated Heron - at Sungei Buloh
  4. Grey Heron## - at Sungei Buloh
  5. Purple Heron##
  6. Great Egret - at Sungei Buloh
  7. Intermediate Egret
  8. Little Egret - at Sungei Buloh
  9. Black-winged Kite
  10. Black Baza
  11. Changeable Hawk-Eagle## - heard only
  12. Brahminy Kite - one individual seen carrying nesting material
  13. White-bellied Sea Eagle
  14. Grey-headed Fish Eagle##* - perched on a low botak branch close to one of the ponds
  15. White-breasted Waterhen - at NSRCC
  16. Grey-headed Lapwing - Doreen's photo
  17. Red-wattled Lapwing##
  18. Pacific Golden Plover - at Sungei Buloh
  19. Whimbrel - at Sungei Buloh
  20. Common Redshank - at Sungei Buloh
  21. Common Greenshank - at Sungei Buloh
  22. Common Sandpiper
  23. Rock Dove
  24. Red Turtle Dove
  25. Spotted Dove
  26. Zebra Dove - at NSRCC
  27. Pink-necked Green Pigeon
  28. Lesser Coucal
  29. Asian Koel
  30. Banded Bay Cuckoo - heard only
  31. Plaintive Cuckoo - heard only
  32. Oriental Dollarbird
  33. Stork-billed Kingfisher
  34. White-throated Kingfisher
  35. Black-capped Kingfisher
  36. Collared Kingfisher
  37. Common Kingfisher
  38. Blue-tailed Bee-eater
  39. Blue-throated Bee-eater
  40. Lineated Barbet - heard only
  41. Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker
  42. Laced Woodpecker
  43. Common Flameback
  44. Red-breasted Parakeet*
  45. Long-tailed Parakeet*
  46. Golden-bellied Gerygone - heard only
  47. Common Iora
  48. Pied Triller
  49. Brown Shrike - at NSRCC
  50. Black-naped Oriole
  51. Malaysian Pied Fantail
  52. House Crow
  53. Large-billed Crow
  54. Yellow-vented Bulbul
  55. Barn Swallow - at NSRCC
  56. Pacific Swallow
  57. Red-rumped Swallow
  58. Oriental Reed Warbler
  59. Yellow-bellied Prinia
  60. Common Tailorbird
  61. Dark-necked Tailorbird
  62. Ashy Tailorbird - at Sungei Buloh
  63. Asian Glossy Starling
  64. Common Hill Myna#
  65. Javan Myna
  66. Common Myna - at NSRCC
  67. Daurian Starling
  68. Oriental Magpie-Robin##
  69. Asian Brown Flycatcher
  70. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
  71. Olive-backed Sunbird
  72. Scaly-breasted Munia
  73. Paddyfield Pipit
  74. Milky stork - at Sungei Buloh
  75. Swiftlet spp.

2016 June 25 - An amazing encounter

It flew from the railing into the grass patch; all the while calling.
Left wing stretched out and seemed unbalanced. Could it be injured?
While I was focusing my binoculars to take a better look, it flew up and stood on my recording board.* OMG!!! A newly fledged bird.
It is overall yellowish; fluffy white belly; faint ring around the eyes; very short tail.
Are the parents calling from the trees? I tilted my head to search in vain.
Perhaps I should take a photo of this.
When I lowered my arm to reach for my phone, it flew onto a palm frond.
Hope it reunites with its parents.

*I was taking part in NParks' Heron Watch. For easy access, I hung the recording board around my neck and it rested on the front of my body.

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